DETROIT, MI -- Ramiro Sanchez, 43, of Detroit was served justice for a second time Friday.

He pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with the rape of a 15-year-old girl with Down Syndrome in southwest Detroit's Hubbard Farms last summer. Wayne County Circuit Judge Craig S. Strong on Friday sentenced Ramirez to between 6 and 15 years in prison.

Janet Ray, the adoptive mother of the victim and well-known members of the Hubbard Farms community in Southwest Detroit, claimed Ramirez, described as a mentally-handicapped man, lured her daughter to his southwest Detroit apartment and raped her on July 17.

News of the incident spread quickly throughout the community but police failed to arrest Ramirez, who eventually became the target of vigilante justice.

Neighbors distributed and posted flyers with Sanchez's picture and "warning - rapist" posted across the top.

He was hospitalized after a beating received from several unidentified assailants and "rapist" was spray-painted on the brick of the "supportive living" facility he lived in near Clark Park. His family moved him out of the neighborhood days after the attack.

Police interviewed Sanchez but he wasn't charged until October, after results of a DNA test were completed.

According to state police, it wasn't until 20 days after the rape kit evidence was collected that the kit was delivered to the forensic lab.

"We all feel that there is a disconnect, there is something wrong with the DPD Sex Crimes Unit," Deb Sumner, founder of the Clark Park Coalition, said weeks after the incident. "Why would anyone sit on evidence like that? Why wasn’t it sent within one to two days to the state police?"